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Book of Genesis, Chapter 17

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Chapter 17 of Genesis—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ When Aʹbram got to be ninety-nine years old, then Jehovah appeared to Aʹbram and said to him:1 “I am God Almighty.[a]2 Walk before me and prove yourself faultless.3
  2. And I will give my covenant between me and you,4 that I may multiply you very, very much.”5
  3. ¶ At this Aʹbram fell upon his face,6 and God[b] continued to speak with him, saying:
  4. “As for me, look! my covenant is with you,7 and you will certainly become a father of a crowd of nations.8
  5. And your name will not be called Aʹbram[c] anymore, and your name must become Abraham,[d] because a father of a crowd of nations I will make you.
  6. And I will make you very, very fruitful and will make you become nations, and kings will come out of you.9
  7. ¶ “And I will carry out my covenant between me and you10 and your seed after you according to their generations for a covenant to time indefinite,11 to prove myself God[e] to you and to your seed after you.12
  8. And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your alien residences,13 even the entire land of Caʹnaan, for a possession to time indefinite; and I will prove myself God to them.”14
  9. ¶ And God said further to Abraham: “As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your seed after you according to their generations.15
  10. This is my covenant that YOU men will keep, between me and YOU men, even your seed after you:16 Every male of YOURS must get circumcised.17
  11. And YOU must get circumcised in the flesh of YOUR foreskins, and it must serve as a sign of the covenant between me and YOU.18
  12. And every male of YOURS eight days old must be circumcised,19 according to your generations, anyone born in the house[f] and anyone purchased with money[g] from any foreigner who is not from your seed.
  13. Every man born in your house and every man purchased with money of yours must without fail get circumcised;20 and my covenant in the flesh of YOU men must serve as a covenant to time indefinite.21
  14. And an uncircumcised male who will not get the flesh of his foreskin circumcised, even that soul must be cut off from his people.22 He has broken my covenant.”
  15. ¶ And God went on to say to Abraham: “As for Sarʹai your wife, you must not call her name Sarʹai,[h] because Sarah[i] is her name.23
  16. And I will bless her and also give you a son from her;24 and I will bless her and she shall become nations;25 kings of peoples will come from her.”26
  17. At this Abraham fell upon his face and began to laugh and to say in his heart:27 “Will a man a hundred years old have a child born, and will Sarah, yes, will a woman ninety years old give birth?”28
  18. ¶ After that Abraham said to the [true] God:[j] “O that Ishʹma·el might live before you!”29
  19. To this God said: “Sarah your wife is indeed bearing you a son, and you must call his name Isaac.[k]30 And I will establish my covenant with him for a covenant to time indefinite to his seed after him.31
  20. But as regards Ishʹma·el I have heard you. Look! I will bless him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him very, very much.32 He will certainly produce twelve chieftains,[l] and I will make him become a great nation.33
  21. However, my covenant I shall establish with Isaac,34 whom Sarah will bear to you at this appointed time next year.”35
  22. ¶ With that God finished speaking with him and went up from Abraham.36
  23. Abraham then proceeded to take Ishʹma·el his son and all the men born in his house and everyone purchased with money of his, every male among the men of the household of Abraham, and he went to circumcising the flesh of their foreskins in this very day, just as God had spoken with him.37
  24. And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he had the flesh of his foreskin circumcised.38
  25. And Ishʹma·el his son was thirteen years old when he had the flesh of his foreskin circumcised.39
  26. In this very day Abraham got circumcised, and also Ishʹma·el his son.40
  27. And all the men of his household, anyone born in the house and anyone purchased with money from a foreigner, got circumcised with him.41

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “God Almighty.” Heb., ʼEl Shad·daiʹ.
  2. ^ Heb., ʼElo·himʹ, pl., without the definite article.
  3. ^ Meaning “Father of Exaltation.” Heb., ʼAv·ramʹ.
  4. ^ Meaning “Father of a Multitude.” Heb., ʼAv·ra·hamʹ.
  5. ^ “Myself God.” Lit., “for a God.” Heb., lEʼ·lo·himʹ, pl., without the definite article.
  6. ^ Or, “any son of a slave.”
  7. ^ Lit., “silver.” Heb., keʹseph.
  8. ^ Meaning “Contentious.” Heb., Sa·raiʹ.
  9. ^ Meaning “Princess.” Heb., Sa·rahʹ.
  10. ^ See App 1F.
  11. ^ Meaning “Laughter.” Heb., Yits·chaqʹ; an example of onomatopoeia, where the sound suggests the sense.
  12. ^ Or, “nasis.” Heb., nesi·ʼimʹ; Vg, “dukes; leaders”; LXX, “nations.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 12:7
  2. ^ Re 16:7
  3. ^ Ps 15:2; 18:23
  4. ^ Ps 105:8; Ga 3:17
  5. ^ Ge 22:17; De 1:10; Heb 11:12
  6. ^ Jg 13:20; Mt 17:6
  7. ^ Ps 105:9
  8. ^ Ge 13:16; Ro 4:17
  9. ^ 2Ki 1:18
  10. ^ Mc 7:20; Lu 1:72
  11. ^ Jg 2:1; Ps 105:10
  12. ^ Ex 19:5; Mr 12:26
  13. ^ Ex 6:4; Heb 11:9
  14. ^ De 14:2; Ps 105:11
  15. ^ Ex 19:5; De 11:13
  16. ^ Ge 21:4; Lu 2:21
  17. ^ Ge 34:15; Jos 5:2; Ro 2:29
  18. ^ Ac 7:8; Ro 4:11
  19. ^ Ge 21:4; Lu 2:21; Pp 3:5
  20. ^ Ex 12:44; Ac 16:3
  21. ^ Jg 2:1; Ps 111:5
  22. ^ Ex 4:24; Nu 15:31; Jn 7:23
  23. ^ Ge 11:29
  24. ^ Ge 18:10; Ro 9:9
  25. ^ Ge 35:11
  26. ^ 2Ch 28:26
  27. ^ Ge 18:12; 21:6; Lu 2:19
  28. ^ Ro 4:19; Heb 11:11
  29. ^ Ge 16:11
  30. ^ Mt 1:2; Ro 9:7; Ga 4:28
  31. ^ Ge 26:24; Ps 105:9; Lu 1:33; Ga 4:28
  32. ^ Ge 16:10; 21:13; 25:13
  33. ^ Ge 21:18; 1Ch 1:29
  34. ^ Ge 26:3; Ex 2:24; Heb 11:9
  35. ^ Ge 18:14; 21:1
  36. ^ De 5:4
  37. ^ Ge 17:13; Jos 5:2; Ro 2:29
  38. ^ Ac 7:8; Ro 4:11
  39. ^ Ge 16:16
  40. ^ Ps 119:60
  41. ^ Ex 12:44

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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